AT Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 10:39:10 Sam wrote:

>What's a little weird about EJ, though, is that the variation wasn't 
>song-to-song or even album-to-album. If you dump all his good songs into 
>one bucket and the bad ones into another, you'll notice that a big majority 
>of the good ones occurred on or before ROCK OF THE WESTIES (some might 
>slide that marker back one to CAPTAIN FANTASTIC, I realize). After that, 
>the suck factor increased dramatically.

After "Blue Moves" he stopped working with Bernie Taupin as lyricist. Not 
hard to do the math after that. 'A Single Man' was his first post-Taupin 
album (1978) and the first release since his debut that didn't have a Top40 
hit on it.



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